At the XXII International Conference on HIV/AIDS in Amsterdam, we managed to talk with Natalia Sidorenko, a specialist having a long practical experience in the field of TB services, as well as an expert of the regional group of the PARTNERSHIP program implemented in Eastern ...

Deadline: 23 August 2018 at 11:55 p.m. CEST

A World Health Organization (WHO) report has found no adverse health outcomes but rather several medical applications for cannabidiol, a.k.a. CBD, despite U.S. federal policy on this cannabinoid chemical.

The present report aims to analyze the most common perceptions and fears, contrast them with available evidence on drugs and the people who use them, and provides recommendations on changes that must be enacted to support reforms toward more effective drug policies.

The INCB Annual Report, prepared in accordance with the international drug control treaties, examines the global drug control situation, and makes recommendations to Governments and regional and international organizations. The thematic chapter of the INCB Annual Report for 2017 focuses on treatment, rehabilitation and social reintegration ...

The meeting of EECA regional networks and community organizations representatives is held in Tallinn today, focused on discussing the concept of the campaign to be launched on the eve of the XXII International AIDS Conference 2018.

The prize fund of the contest is USD1000. The creative works must be in Russian. The contest will last until April 1, 2018.

Giorgi Margvelashvili, the President of Georgia, suggested that the Georgian society should consider approaches to problem of drug addiction in the country which might make the drug policy less stringent and more humane.

From the perspective of activists from Eastern-Europe, Amsterdam is the symbol of humane drug policies. Our Russian speaking reporters visited the city to explore its harm reduction scene – and meet with Eastern-Europeans who live there. Watch their video and find out more!

Outcomes from a large 10 year hepatitis C treatment programme in people who inject drugs: No effect of recent or former injecting drug use on treatment adherence or therapeutic response. People who inject drugs (PWID) are historically viewed as having “difficult to treat” hepatitis C disease, ...

Moscow Anna Alimova works on the front lines of Russia's growing HIV epidemic. On a Friday night, the mother of two with a shock of bright pink hair stands outside a 24-hour pharmacy in a leafy Moscow neighborhood. She cheerfully offers plastic bags full of clean ...

Growing up in eastern Ukraine, Svitlana Moroz said she was a typically reckless teenager who believed she’d live forever. She shared needles with friends to inject opium, had unprotected sex with a guy her own age, and five months after hooking up with him, learned she ...

Although the use of needles to inject illegal drugs is a known risk factor in the transmission of HIV (more than 180,000 injectable drug users with HIV have died since the HIV epidemic began), less attention has been paid to general patterns of drug use ...

Experts discuss the devastating effects of prohibition and their reasons for reform The war on drugs has had devastating effects on human rights and public health worldwide, argue experts in The BMJ. In November, the journal argued that prohibition laws have failed and called on doctors to ...

From the first days of annexation of Crimea and launch of the military operation in the east of Ukraine, Alliance for Public Health (hereinafter – Alliance) defined that one of its priorities was support of HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis prevention and treatment programs, as well ...

Prohibition can prevent access to harm reduction treatment, including methadone, for people who inject drugs, writes Michel Kazatchkine Why is eastern Europe the only region in the world that still has a growing HIV epidemic?1 In one of the region’s countries, Russia, more than two thirds ...

Dramatic decrease of funding from donors for HIV and TB responses and inability or unwillingness of governments to finance such programs has devastating effects on key affected populations (KAPs) in middle-income countries (MICs) – sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who use ...

Drug use generally and chemsex more specifically are perceived to be common and normalised behaviours among gay men involved in those scenes in London, but this perception is contradicted by survey data. As social norms influence health-related behaviour, health promotion interventions should challenge the idea ...